Wireless Technology in Restaurants: retina scan technology at Pizza Hut; unexpected economic and social effects of Wi-Fi

In the Ed Snowden-is-laughing department or perhaps some kind of cross between The Twilight Zone and 1984, Pizza Hut is deploying retina scan technology that will suggest an order for you based on the ingredients on a “smart” phone App you seem most fixated with.  Pizza Hut terms this advancement in modern civilization, “subconscious ordering”:

http://www.idigitaltimes.com/pizza-hut-retina-scanning-ordering-system-predicts-what-you-want-398307

Wi-Fi appears to have slown down the whole dining experience with people checking their phones before ordering, making waiters run around boosting the Wi-Fi to feed their addiction and chit-chatting with the waiters their Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook.  It took one restaurant hiring a business consultant to figure out why they were less efficient than they had been a decade earlier:

http://naturalcuresnotmedicine.com/people-kept-complaining-this-restaurant-sucked-surprisingly-this-is-what-they-discovered/

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